by Juan Goytisolo · Editorial Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432203916
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La Chanca is a work by the Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo, published in 1981. This book, belonging to the Biblioteca Breve collection, offers an autobiographical and narrative fiction account that goes beyond simple documentary testimony. Goytisolo, with his clarity and lucidity, carries out an X-ray of the Spanish present, exploring the deepest substrate of reality. La Chanca is based on the very root of the rigorous literary and moral project that has presided over the author's career, standing out as one of the main writers of the Spanish language.
Juan Goytisolo Gay was a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist. He lived in Marrakesh from 1997 until his death in 2017. He was considered Spain's greatest living writer at the beginning of the 21st century, yet he had lived abroad since the 1950s. On 24 November 2014 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.
